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Adverse or averse: conditions, feelings, and sentence patterns

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Adverse means harmful or unfavourable, especially before a noun: adverse weather or adverse effects. Averse means unwilling or opposed, usually in a phrase such as averse to change or averse to taking risks.

Heavy rain created adverse conditions for the outdoor event.
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